- Searching for the Next War: What Happens When Contractors Leave Afghanistan? https://thediplomat.com/2021/08/searching-for-the-next-war-what-happens-when-contractors-leave-afghanistan 7 comments worldnews
- The 1,000th American death in Afghanistan happened today. The war has raged on longer than WWII or Vietnam http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/us/19dead.html?partner=rss&emc=rss 9 comments politics
- Washington’s War in Afghanistan Is Over. What Happens Now? - President Biden was right to withdraw US troops. But we should have no illusion that this will end the war for Afghans https://www.thenation.com/article/world/washington-afghanistan-taliban-women/ 19 comments politics
- What would happen if people refused to pay their taxes - as Thoreau did back in 1849 - to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? http://hnn.us/articles/116290.html 8 comments politics
- Did the War in Afghanistan Have to Happen? In 2001, when the Taliban were weak and ready to surrender, the U.S. passed on a deal. Nearly 20 years later, the Taliban hold all the cards. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/world/middleeast/afghanistan-taliban-deal-united-states.html 59 comments politics
- GOP Candidates Are Warming to the Idea of War With Iran - It’s like Iraq and Afghanistan never happened in the minds of the next generation of Republican warmongers. https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-candidates-are-warming-to-the-idea-of-war-with-iran 344 comments politics
- What's really happening in the Middle East: Iran and Saudi Arabia are engaged in a Cold War that is playing out in both Iraq and Afghanistan. http://www.ablogistan.com/archives/2008/11/the_iran-saudi.html 11 comments worldnews
- How the U.S. Government Misleads the Public on Afghanistan. Seventeen years into the war in Afghanistan, American officials routinely issue inflated assessments of progress that contradict what is actually happening there. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/08/world/asia/us-misleads-on-afghanistan.html 165 comments geopolitics
- Now in Control -- The Independent Private Contractor Military. "A funny thing happened on the way to the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. The U.S. military became privatized. Private contractors, i.e. mercenaries, are now the predominant military force..." http://www.progressiveavenues.org/ind_con_art_m%26l_h.html 3 comments politics
- Fears are growing in Washington that the nine-year Afghan War may be lost. American popular opinion has turned against the war. The Pentagon fears a failure in Afghanistan will humiliate the US military and undermine America’s power. In short, just what happened to the Soviet Union. http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis208.html 186 comments politics
- China PM rebukes Cameron for finger pointing and Libya bombing: "Foreign troops may be able to win war in a place, but they can hardly win peace. Hard lessons have been learned from what has happened in the Middle East and Afghanistan." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/27/china-cameron-human-rights-abuses 13 comments worldnews
- Bored to Death in Afghanistan (and Washington). At home and abroad, whether judging by airline pilots or Washington’s war policy, Americans seem remarkably incapable of doing anything other than repeating the same self-defeating acts, as if they had never happened before. http://www.truth-out.org/bored-death-afghanistan-and-washington/1305822590 3 comments politics
- President Obama maintains close to 50,000 troops in Iraq and continues to escalate and expand the war in Afghanistan, the antiwar movement in America continues to shrink. What happened? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_VHEts3fqk 8 comments politics